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Kildare County Council Arts Service announces 2024 Arts Grant Funding

Kildare County Council Arts Service announces 2024 Arts Grant Funding

 

Kildare County Council’s Arts Service has announced funding under the Arts Grants 2024, to support creative and artistic projects in County Kildare. Grant aid of €121,249 has been awarded via 16 separate schemes to 76 projects which will take place across all five of Kildare’s Municipal Districts in 2024. 

 

Included among the 16 awards are; the Arts in Education Bursary which places artists in schools across County Kildare; The First Fortnight Award in association with First Fortnight which supports the development and presentation of new work promoting mental health awareness and wellbeing; the Research and Thinking Bursary and Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award which supports artists from all artforms, allowing them time to research and think about their arts practice or explore a new area within it, while accessing mentorship and networking opportunities.

 

In addition, Kildare County Council welcomed applications to the Kildare Short Grass Film Commission Award, Kildare Creative Ireland Bursary Awards 2024 and the Creative Ireland Cruinniú na nÓg Bursary Award 2024. Information on the projects funded under these awards will be published separately.

 

Full details of projects awarded under the Arts Grants 2024 can be found here: Kildare County Council Arts Service - Grants and Opportunities (kildarecoco.ie)

 

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